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Tonight is our second in a two-part series and what we've been doing is exploring

through a really lovely teaching story from the Upanishads, how we encounter

impermanence and difficulty and the three gifts that can be really powerful

and helping us to awaken. For those that weren't here or didn't listen to the

last talk, it's okay you'll find this stands on its own but you might go back

at some point and listen to it. The story is about Nachikata and Nachikata is a

young Indian man and his father got into a real heavy duty standoff kind of

conflict as father in his rage said, I give you to Yama, to Lord Yama and Yama is

the Lord of death. So as I said last week, it's like saying go to hell, you know,

you just said, out of here, Nachikata being a sincere and taking things

concretely type guy said, okay, I'll do it. So he went into the forest and he went

searching for the realm of Lord Yama. He found that domain and for three days

waited for the Lord of death to appear and endured hunger and pain and

exhaustion and so on. Lord Yama appears and he's so impressed with this dedicated

young guy that he says, okay, any three wishes that you want. So Nachikata had his

three wishes and last week we explored his first wish, which was he said, let me

come to peace with my father. So he had the wisdom to know that his spiritual

journey began with releasing the armoring around his heart. Let me learn the

art of forgiveness. And so that's the that's the first wish that Lord Yama

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